What's Your Word for the Day? Showing 1,401-1,450 of 3,049

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I speak from experience of course!!!

[Robyn]

I need to justify why she won't been team leader next year - I don't think she will understand that there's been a problem :) She lacks awareness of her lack of awareness...

but if I want her to become nescient of her lack of awareness, isn't that an oxymoron? Is it even possible? Therein lies the rub...

New words
Because I feel torbid today I wish I could estivate...

torbid - inactive, sluggish, dormant
estivate - sleep during summer

[Savvy]

Robyn wrote: "I need to justify why she won't been team leader next year - I don't think she will understand that there's been a problem :) She lacks awareness of her lack of awareness...

but if I want her t..."
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naiveté ....a softer depiction...

[Robyn]

Robyn wrote: "I need to justify why she won't been team leader next year - I don't think she will understand that there's been a problem :) She lacks awareness of her lack of awareness...

but if I want her t..."

Yes, I looked at naive.

Wonder if it implies simplicity or innocence of response rather than weirdness or 'off-the-wallness' of her responses?

I encourage creativity and diversity of thought but she is seemingly unaware that people think she is very strange and that often her responses are, well, weird - or sometimes really lacking intelligence or reasoning.

[Robyn]

How about this?

At times ***** lacks discernment; contributing ideas that are disparate to those of the group or team.

And so as not to be seen as hogging the board:

It's been a lot of kerfuffle ~ (fuss) to find the right phraseology...

[Savvy]

ENANTIODROMIA

enantiodromia is “the process by which something becomes its opposite,” particularly when an individual or community adopts beliefs antithetical to beliefs they held earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enantiod...

[Ken, Moderator]

Politicians are afflicted with enantiodromia regularly. In fact, a pandemic has been declared in Mitt Romney's body.

[David]

"Tergiversation" is desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith. It's also a lack of straightforwardness and clarity.

[Ken, Moderator]

Keeping the Politics category, I see. Politics for $500, Alex...

[Robyn]

ag⋅gress  [uh-gres:]
–verb (used without object) 1. to commit the first act of hostility or offense; attack first.

as in punch unsuspecting person in face...

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Now now Robyn.........you know what Cara was like!!

[Savvy]

In politics for $500 NE,
the word for the following please....

"The reorganization of voting districts by the party in power to insure more votes for their candidates. The term originated in 1811, when Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts signed a bill that changed districts to favor the Democrats."

[David]

not a salamander--a gerrymander:

[Ken, Moderator]

Oh, shoot. I knew that, too. Just can't seem to buzz in faster than David. And hey, this mander is my neck of the woods (er, not now, but you get the idea).

[Robyn]

promulgate: verb : make known

[David]

I thought it was a scandal where the class treasurer ran off with the ticket money from the Sr. Prom.

[Savvy]

Very good David! Great illustration!
Shall we have another go so NE can play?

Okay Politics again..for $1,000...What is the name commonly used for the following?

A journalist who seeks out the scandalous activities of public officials. Derived from a character in John Bunyan's "The Pilgrim's Progress," who could never look up, only down.

[Ken, Moderator]

Um... muckraker? I hope this is the Daily Double because I can pick how much I bet.

Oh, and I never read PILGRIM'S PROGRESS, though I've felt like Everyman more than once in life.

[David]

OK, what's the word for a fence-straddler? It's an avian metaphor.

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "Um... muckraker? I hope this is the Daily Double because I can pick how much I bet.


Yeah NE... the daily double indeed did display!
You are now a wealthy politico! :-)

[Savvy]

David wrote: "OK, what's the word for a fence-straddler? It's an avian metaphor."

Could it be "centrist wing"???

[David]

Nope. It's "mugwump," a bird whose mug is on one side of the fence and whose "wump" is on the tother.

E.g., Republicans who supported the Democrat Grover Cleveland for President.

[Ken, Moderator]

The Mugwumps were aptly named, but nothing's more honest than the Know-Nothing Party (actually, most drinkers at ANY part "know nothing").

A word I see frequently in my readings but have to look up again and again is ontological which means "relating to or based upon being or existence." Mnemonic device: "To ontolog or not to ontolog, that is the question."

[David]

Mark Hopkins ontolog at one end, a student at the other? Or, offtolog?

[Ken, Moderator]

Who ont Mark Hopkins?

[Ruth]

My zoologist mother made sure I knew "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" before the age of 10.

[Savvy]

My M.D.father made me aware of how 'syrup of ipecac' regurgitates oleander munchings or any other toxic intake by toddlers or their pets at a very young age.

EMETIC

[Savvy]

SWASIVIOUS

Swasivious; to be persuasive in an agreeable fashion.

[Ken, Moderator]

Well, at least it has that "sway" sound in the beginning.

Do we have a word for words we have to constantly look up because we forget the meaning? If we did, I would use that word a lot.

"Oh, it's just another ___________________ that I have to look up in my Webster's."

[David]

"Crapulous"--bleary with intoxication.

[David]

omphaloskepsis, "navel gazing," which was the physical accompaniment to hesychasm, a form of monastic mystical exercise. From Greek, ομφαλοσκεπσις.

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote:
"Oh, it's just another ___________________ that I have to look up in my Webster's."

hmmmmmmm?
my pseudowords for this condition (which afflicts me too!)

a) verbum drop (or block or blot)
b) brain fart
c) expired elucidation
d) synapse lapse

[Robyn]

Sisyphean

*sis-i-fee'an, adj* (Greek)

Laborious, endless and futile.

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Are you home yet? I'm off work...gotta a cold in the head.

[Ken, Moderator]

hooky - (probably from slang hook, hook it, to make off): TRUANT -- used chiefly in the phrase "play hooky."

[Tyler]

Word for the day: Sublunary

It means between the earth and the moon. More interesting, though, it can simply mean terrestrial, mundane or worldly. I saw it being used this way in a recent book, Confessions of an English Opium-eater."

[Ken, Moderator]

lexiphile?

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

Looks suspiciously like one to me!!

[David]

It is now.

[Savvy]

GRAWLIX-

"Is there a word for @#$%!^*)!&!, those typographical symbols standing in for profanity?"

"There is indeed. It’s grawlix—not to be confused with jarns, quimps, nittles, lucaflects, or plewds. For more on such terms, check out cartoonist Mort Walker’s Private Scrapbook.
There’s also an amazing list of grawlixes used in cartoons and comics from 1911 to 2008."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexi...

[Savvy]

from Urban Dictionary
July 6: FACEBRAG

To use Facebook as a platform to brag.
Normally about a job, internship, trip, purchase or anything else that nobody really needs to know but you'd like to tell everyone because you're awesome.

Sample Facebook Status: Jane Stephens is headed to London with her new iPhone for her 2nd JOB INTERVIEW!!!!! :))))

"Hey, did you see Jane's newest Facebrag? Eesh."

[Ken, Moderator]

A collective noun, I see. Good to collect.

[Savvy]

or a unchecked yeast infection! (which it sounds like...)

[Ken, Moderator]

The "flora" part has me thinking veggie.

[Wangũi]

So where to start: one of those words which never stick and which I only remember when I don't need it: what's the word for the introduction/overview of a book on the back cover? And does hibiscus have a plural? Hibisci? Hibiscuses?
And I've always loved serendipity!!

[Debbie, sardonic princess of cheerfulness]

I think it is called 'the blurb'........

[Wangũi]

Cool thanks!

[Ken, Moderator]

Blurb. What a word. And then there are forewords and afterwords and... oh, what's the word for a dedication in front of a book (to keep you thinkers thinking)?

Hi Rence. Care to introduce yourself in the Introductions thread? You don't have to. Some people just come in the back door and that's fine. We

assimilate

[David]

"I'm a back door man.
You don't know what the little girls understand."

[Savvy]

Newengland wrote: "Blurb. What a word. And then there are forewords and afterwords and... oh, what's the word for a dedication in front of a book (to keep you thinkers thinking)?

EPIGRAPH for literature $1,000, please!